Cartoonist Abner Dean's publishers claim that psychiatrists try out his
drawings on their patients. The average beholder who looks at And on
the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he
or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch.
Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary
Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig:
but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings
(the others:...